Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1697/2019 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 November 2020.
1. The Applicant is a 38-year-old national of Bangladesh who arrived in Hong Kong on 30 March 2013 with permission to work as a foreign domestic helper until the expiration of her employment contract or within 14 days of its early termination, but when her last employment contract was prematurely terminated on 17 June 2014, she did not depart and instead overstayed in Hong Kong, and on 15 June 2015 she surrendered to the Immigration Department and raised a non-refoulement claim on the basis that